What if...

[Nickswitz]

Imagine this, some being from the trek timeline gets beamed back to the Oregon trail time period, on the wagon trails, What do you think would happen with certain species.

I think Borg would die quickly due to servo overload from the heat and dust and everything.
I think a Vulcan would go and drown themselves as soon as they found water so as not to pollute the time line.
I think Klingons would own the people just because they are there.
I think the Romulans would kill most of the travelers as well.

[stitch626]

If they could get past the odd looking head, the Ferengi would bleed everyone dry.

[Sionnach Glic]

Well this is an odd thread.

[Mikey]

If they could get past the odd looking head, the Ferengi would bleed everyone dry.

Meh. Just tell everyone they're from France. That always works.

[Tsukiyumi]

If they could get past the odd looking head, the Ferengi would bleed everyone dry.

Meh. Just tell everyone they're from France. That always works.

They got their heads caught in mechanical rice-pickers?

[Bryan Moore]

If they could get past the odd looking head, the Ferengi would bleed everyone dry.

Meh. Just tell everyone they're from France. That always works.

They got their heads caught in mechanical rice-pickers?

ZING! LOL, nice Tsuki!

I'd imagine the Klingons/Romulans would conquer as we said. The Borg would survive, they're clearly pretty durable creatures, and all it takes, in theory, was one to assimilate a few travellers, and in time, the whole world is done. Unless he ran into natives first, who hunted him down and killed him. Though, I'm guessing they'd be in trouble when they'd try to ford the river and their fuggen oxen died!

[Mark]

Wait, how many are we talking about? A hand full or a ship full?

[Nickswitz]

You decide, any group, any size, and how they would fare. Just to see peoples opinions

[IntrepidPrincess]

The Borg would survive, they're clearly pretty durable creatures, and all it takes, in theory, was one to assimilate a few travellers

What about regenerating? There's no technology back then to assimilate to make alcoves. And as we saw in Voyager, borg can only survive so long without regeneration. Or can they make alcoves from rifles? I mean, we're assuming they don't have their ship right? Nick did say "beamed back", and you can't beam a whole ship...Right?

[RK_Striker_JK_5]

The Borg would survive, they're clearly pretty durable creatures, and all it takes, in theory, was one to assimilate a few travellers

What about regenerating? There's no technology back then to assimilate to make alcoves. And as we saw in Voyager, borg can only survive so long without regeneration. Or can they make alcoves from rifles? I mean, we're assuming they don't have their ship right? Nick did say "beamed back", and you can't beam a whole ship...Right?

Well, the Borg converted a captured freighter in ENT and the E-E in First COntact. I doubt they beamed over all that tech when the shields were down.

[Aaron]

If they could get past the odd looking head, the Ferengi would bleed everyone dry.

Somehow I doubt their any worse (or better at it) then the oil/lumber barons, the coal mine owners or the land barons that screwed folks out of their gold claims. The Ferengi always struck me as Capitalist's set to "foolish".

With the Borg, we don't really know what they do to make their stuff beyond magic nano's. There's squat to assimilate besides iron and steel tools and very, very basic technology. A steam train, telegraph and a printing press are about the most advanced things you'll find here.

[Nickswitz]

I wonder if the Borg would begin resorting to assimilating lesser tech in order to survive. Like if they saw a steam train, would they assimilate it and use its metal for something, or just ignore it. Has there been any precedent for this in any of the Trek series ever?

[Aaron]

I wonder if the Borg would begin resorting to assimilating lesser tech in order to survive. Like if they saw a steam train, would they assimilate it and use its metal for something, or just ignore it. Has there been any precedent for this in any of the Trek series ever?

How do you assimilate a steam train? You could break it down for it's material yeah but you couldn't have the train do anything for you without adding stuff they don't have.

[Nickswitz]

Shush, lol. That's what I meant, break it down and use it for parts, and then assimilate any people on board, but could they outfit it with the nanoprobes to do what they needed it to do?

[Aaron]

Shush, lol. That's what I meant, break it down and use it for parts, and then assimilate any people on board, but could they outfit it with the nanoprobes to do what they needed it to do?

*shrug* Dunno, it's restricted to a track line but I suppose they could zip up and down the line and assimilate random folks at stations.